John Lloyd: An animated tour of the invisible
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given by John Lloyd in 2009]
has spent his whole career
a John Lloyd. (Aplausos)
than you think, actually.
everything that matters --
but we can't see what holds them apart,
pero no lo que los separa
we see only the skin of things,
solo vemos la piel de las cosas,
ni podemos ver qué mueve a la gente,
we can't see what makes people tick,
the more it disappears.
really closely at stuff,
la subestructura básica de la materia,
substructure of matter,
desaparecen fugaces y sólo hay energía.
and there is only energy.
es que las cosas que no podemos ver,
about invisibility is,
we also can't understand.
and which we don't understand.
podemos ver, ni entendemos.
of all the four fundamental forces,
las cuatro fuerzas fundamentales,
realidad qué es y por qué existe.
knows what it is or why it's there.
the greatest scientist who ever lived,
el más grande científico que haya vivido,
to Earth specifically
en esto? No lo sé. (Risas)
on that one, I don't know.
en qué piensan.
I've no idea what any of you are thinking.
que no podamos leer la mente del otro,
each other's minds,
taste each other,
but we can't read each other's minds.
this great Middle Eastern religion
para algunos la raíz de todas las religiones,
is the root of all religions,
all telepaths, so they say,
to the rest of us that it doesn't exist.
the Sufi masters working on us.
los maestros sufís nos estén manejando.
and artificial intelligence,
like the study of consciousness,
de la conciencia nos han llevado
cómo funciona la conciencia.
how consciousness works.
artificial intelligence,
artificial stupidity.
eternal, omnipresent, all powerful.
not a materialist, I'm an immaterialist.
¿qué tal? Soy un ignóstico, [¿Dios?]
new word -- ignostic.
on whether God exists
is the human genome.
because about 20 years ago
porque desde hace 20 años desde
they thought it would probably contain
pensamos que contendría probablemente
it's been revised downwards.
creemos que apenas 20 mil genes
to be just over 20 thousand genes
because rice -- get this --
porque el arroz —ojo—
two more than people,
48 cromosomas, 2 más que la gente
but they are very strange.
think that's fascinating.
pienso que es fascinante.
más luz, menos pueden ver.
the less you can see.
hay un gran movimiento en la física moderna
no existe porque no encaja con los números;
for the figures.
except in your memory.
things about the past
what I was like when I was two?
earlier than the age of two or three.
que de otra forma estarían sin trabajo.
because otherwise they'd be out of a job.
is the grid on which we hang.
a la que estamos colgados.
that cells are continually renewed.
las uñas, ese tipo de cosas,
nails, that kind of stuff --
is replaced at some point.
reemplazada en algún momento.
take a bit longer.
not one cell in your body
ninguna célula del cuerpo
seven years ago.
who then are we? What are we?
¿Dónde estamos agarrados?
than the wavelength of light.
recién alguien mencionó 1600.
mentioned 1600 recently.
químico holandés llamado Van Helmont.
by a Dutch chemist called van Helmont.
invention of a word by a known individual.
jamás acuñada por alguien.
called "blas," meaning astral radiation.
que significa radiación astral.
dirige un rayo de luz a los ojos, no vemos nada.
you won't see it.
will disagree with this.
the beam of light,
they understand electricity, they don't.
in an electric wire move instantaneously
cuando encienden la luz.
at the speed of light,
honey, they say.
Hundred billion.
galaxies, with the naked eye.
unless you've got very good eyesight.
a menos que tengan muy buena vista.
cuando descubrió las ondas de radio
radio waves, in 1887,
radio porque radiaban.
because they radiated.
"What's the point of these, Heinrich?
that you've found?"
a use for them someday.
nosotros es lo que no sabemos
to us is what we don't know.
un 1% de una millónesima de nada.
of one millionth about anything."
"What's another thing we can't see?"
¿Qué otra cosa no podemos ver?
nosotros, ¿cuál es el sentido?
hay dos preguntas que valen la pena hacer.
really worth asking.
hacer al respecto mientras estemos aquí?
we do about it while we are?"
you with, from two great philosophers,
cosas de dos grandes filósofos,
pensadores filosóficos del siglo XX.
thinkers of the 20th century.
and the other a poet.
que NO es para divertirnos".
in order to enjoy ourselves."
W.H. Auden, one of my favorite poets,
uno de mis poetas favoritos.
on Earth to help others.
A qué vinieron los otros, NO tengo la menor idea".
are here for, I've no idea."
¡Siga su viaje a lo desconocido!]
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
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Why you should listen
John Lloyd seems to have known every brilliant and funny person in Britain, and his collaborations are legendary. He's been a fixture on the BBC for four decades, producing such classic comedies as Blackadder, Spitting Image, the BBC's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and lately QI (short for "Quite Interesting"), hosted by Stephen Fry (read his Reddit AMA about it).
Lloyd has also written more than a dozen funny books -- including The Meaning of Liff, a collaboration with his friend Douglas Adams, which has been in print for 26 years.
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